I See An Active Michio Kaku Thread, Remember He Doesn't Always Know What He's Saying!

I don't think I could participate in a debate on the issue, I haven't the education and knowledge to do so,
but though that sounds "dumbed down" for the masses, it does seem to sum up the basic idea that I have always read concerning the Higgs boson,
doesn't it?

I mean, it represents the secret to matter, which for many people is synonymous with creation of the physical world.
It HAS been commonly called "the God Particle" in the media, for many years now, for that reason.

I took his astronomy course at CCNY. Whether or not he is as brilliant as people think he is, I couldn't tell you. While I was initially beyond
excited to get a seat in his class, by the end of the semester it felt like a huge waste of time. He dumbs down his courses unnecessarily, and on the
days he would actually decide to show up and teach he would often just play us a video of himself on Science or Discovery. If I really wanted to get
my education from cable TV I could have done it at home for free.

What I can tell you is that the man is extremely full of himself. He calls himself a "popularizer of science" but he really should be called a
"popularizer of Kaku." He name drops constantly and looooves talking about himself and his accomplishments. Loves it. Can't get enough of it. It's
sickening. But thanks for the A!

Originally posted by Bluesma represents the secret to matter, which for many people is synonymous with creation of the physical
world.
It HAS been commonly called "the God Particle" in the media, for many years now, for that reason.

It has been called the God Particle because a book author wanted to sell alot of copies.
That's why and nothing more

Originally posted by CommanderCraCra
Wow. You really aren't getting it... at all. Autistic or something?

The only way to spread the awareness to the masses of these kinda things is to dumb it down, to "lie" as you are calling it.

Firstly i'm not flipping out, I made a thread.

And no I am getting it, I just so very much disagree with this approach.

You say the only way to spread awareness to the masses is to dumb it down.
How is he dumbing it down?
To dumb it down would mean not to go in detail and not be too technical, but only speak truth.
Do you disagree with that statement?

Even dumbing it down starts from truth, but where is the truth that the Higgs joins things or was involved in the big bang?

The Higgs boson, also called the “God particle” is highly important to physics. The boson and its energy field were crucial in the shaping of
the universe that is linked to the 13.7-billion year Big Bang Theory. This pertains to the creation of stars, of the planets and all life forms, and
in scientific jargon, the particle that gives mass to matter.

While the discovery may not interest the laymen, it is a monumental find in the scientific community as this will enable them to have a better
understanding of the formation of the universe, because for them, the Higgs boson is its building block.

Although quantum field theories are not directly related to the creation-evolution controversy, the Higgs field is sometimes discussed within the
context of Big Bang cosmology. Shortly after the supposed Big Bang, proponents speculate that as the very high temperatures in the early universe
decreased, a change in the Higgs field occurred, so that it was able to interact with particles in such a way as to give them mass. (The theoretical
change in the Higgs field at high temperatures is somewhat similar to the way a magnet can lose its magnetism if heated above a high temperature.)8

But, presumably, particles would have mass as a result of their interaction with the Higgs field in either a creation or an evolution scenario,
provided that temperatures are sufficiently low. Why would a theoretical change in the Higgs field at extremely high temperatures necessarily imply
that such high temperatures were actually present in the early universe? Moreover, a major media outlet acknowledged the lack of direct evidence for
this hypothetical high-temperature transition in the Higgs field, despite the general pro-evolution bias of the popular press.9

Physicist and popular author Michio Kaku wrote:

In quantum physics, it was a Higgs-like particle that sparked the cosmic explosion [the Big Bang]. In other words, everything we see around us,
including galaxies, stars, planets and us, owes its existence to the Higgs boson.10

Kaku’s statement is ambiguous because it is not clear whether he is claiming that the Higgs boson itself or another still-hypothetical Higgs-like
particle would have been the cause of the Big Bang. He is apparently alluding to the fact that Big Bang cosmologists speculate that a Higgs-like
scalar field, the inflaton, could have caused inflation—a phenomenon needed in order to solve serious (if not fatal) problems in the original Big
Bang model.

Originally posted by Erowynn
I took his astronomy course at CCNY. Whether or not he is as brilliant as people think he is, I couldn't tell you. While I was initially beyond
excited to get a seat in his class, by the end of the semester it felt like a huge waste of time. He dumbs down his courses unnecessarily, and on the
days he would actually decide to show up and teach he would often just play us a video of himself on Science or Discovery. If I really wanted to get
my education from cable TV I could have done it at home for free.

What I can tell you is that the man is extremely full of himself. He calls himself a "popularizer of science" but he really should be called a
"popularizer of Kaku." He name drops constantly and looooves talking about himself and his accomplishments. Loves it. Can't get enough of it. It's
sickening. But thanks for the A!

originally posted by: ModernAcademia
Kaku is either lying or he doesn't know what he's talking about!!!

After watching the video below, that was EXACTLY the same feeling I was left with.

Another possibility is because he is being blackmailed.

My opinion is that Michio Kaku has officially sold out.

There are just far too many signs that this is in fact true.

On July 19 Kaku really lost his "cool" when he tried to intellectually bully RT Interviewer Oksana Boyco. Kaku becomes quite rude and
belligerent with the host at this point. He asks, “Are you a 'conspiracy theorist'?”. And he demands that she answer his question, “Who was
behind 9/11?” He repeats it five times in rapid succession! You can hear him interrupt her every time she tries to answer. He is clearly trying to
use the full weight of his celebrity “Science Guy” status to intimidate the young and articulate Russian journalist, Oksana Boyco.

See also Dr
Kaku's interview on RT three days later where he really reveals his position on 9/11 in a heated exchange with Oksana Boyko. Kaku is quite combative
in this interview with Oksana.

At 9:25 Kaku becomes quite rude and belligerent with the host at this point. He asks, “Are you a 'conspiracy theorist'?”. And he demands that
she answer his question, “Who was behind 9/11?” He repeats it five times in rapid succession! You can hear him interrupt her everytime she tries
to answer. He is clearly trying to use the full weight of his celebrity “Science Guy” status to intimidate the young journalist Oksana.

She dare not answer in a way that he would not approve. He is quite literally the classic male “intellectual” bully here. At 10:10 she bows to his
bullying by saying, “I do tend to believe in this conventional narrative of Al Qaida and Osama bin Laden being behind that tragic and horrendous
attack. The question is whether the deaths of those people justify the deaths of hundreds of thousands after that?”

Kaku accuses Boyko of equating the failings of “democracy” with the “dark forces of evil and torture”, and he quite deliberately ignores the
acknowledeged US use of indefinite “detention” imprisonment, torture, and targeted assassinations, even of US citizens as in the case of the Al
Awlakis father and son. Outrageously, Kaku justifies the slaughter and destruction of Iraq because debates and demonstrations had been allowed before
it happened! She calls him on that by pointing out that the justifications of weapons of mass destruction turned out to not be true.

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